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Wonderful island, wonderful seaside, fantastic food …

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I feel the urge to share this with the italian audience (well, at least the english-speaking part of it)

Priceless … don’t miss the Restaurant Date as well

I’ve decided to pick up one photo from each “major” place I’ve visited until now. I’ve certainly visited more than the one depicted here, let’s just say that I’m putting the ones I’ve reached with a camera

Baska beach – Krk island (Croatia) – 2005

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele – Milano (Italy) 2008

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I’ve spent a day in Blenheim Palace, an English Baroque palace located in Oxfordshire (near the town of Woodstock). It is also famous as being the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. Spent there a day organized by my company, visiting the place and its beautiful surroundings, as well as enjoying falconry displays, jousting tournament and archery trials. Really a nice place, and definitely the place to be in one of the hottest days ever since I am in United Kingdom. It looks like this year’s summer is really hot and not too rainy, which is more unique than rare in this country…

Despite the numerous coffee places you can find in London (Starbucks, Caffé Nero, Costa etc…) it’s always difficult to get a good and nice espresso. So there is nothing better than my italian moka to warm up the morning.

Enough of a boost to start the work day I would fall dead if I can’t get it straight after waking up!

Adding some nice pictures I’ve taken in Valencia (Spain). I’ve spent a few days there, and I definitely recommend it: not only you can get wonderful food and wine (the typical rice dish “paella” as well as a variety of superb fish plates) but you will enjoy a nice holyday in a cheap, touristic-friendly city! The metro brings you directly on the beaches (Playa de la Malva Rosa) where you can hire a beach chair and umbrella for the whole day and for a few euros! Nothing compared to some really expensive beaches in Italy where a mortgage is needed to afford them lol. In the evening you can enjoy the never-ending night life and the romantic city centre

Valencia is easily reachable from the major airports, about 2 hours of flight from London Gatwick with Easyjet. The city centre is connected to the airport with the metro line. You can buy three-day travelpass which allow you to board all the public transports and entitle you to various discounts for about 20 euros.

And so … after one year and a half I managed to explore the famous seaside resort in United Kingdom, Brighton for a weekend break. 1 hour train from central London, not too bad. Have to say it was quite good, temperature was terrific and it was quite fun to see how the britons are reacting to the sunshine and the nice temperatures I have got a sunburn, mainly because I am not having regular doses of sunshine lately! No bathing for me, water looked way too cold for a mediterranean being like me… Now, let’s hope the sun stays around a bit more for the Bank Holyday week end!

As this is probably gonna be a big pile of shit, let’s remember everyone the real one…

A bunch of photos from United Kingdom … Isle of Wight, London … nice places …

I have to say that owning a Canon EOS 500d is a total different story The photo quality and the feeling when using a reflex is so much better!

Sai cos’é l’Isola di Wight? Si lo so

Niente male … a parte il vento incessante e il freddo :P

Non ho visto hippy in giro …